$800,000

Case Details

David Rifkin brought a medical malpractice action against the decedent’s primary care physician, contending that the doctor deviated from the standard of care for colon cancer screening and acute presentation. The plaintiff’s decedent asserted that the defendant's doctor provided inadequate colon cancer screening. A colonoscopy, according to the plaintiff’s expert, would have revealed the mass in her cecum, and detection at such an early stage would likely have prevented her death (and/or would have given her a substantially improved chance of survival.

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